Leonardo Del Toro

Leonardo Del Toro RN

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  1. When Will the Nursing Shortage Be Over?

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Nursing CE Central's topic in General Nursing

    Not sure because my head is shaved. I suppose I'm pretty white. I'm 63 and will work full time for another 2 years then retire at 66 1/2? Can't

  2. When Will the Nursing Shortage Be Over?

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Nursing CE Central's topic in General Nursing

    I know. I've remember applying constantly to a certain hospital and never, ever hearing anything at all. I was like sending applications to a wall. Very humiliating after all we had to do to become...

  3. When Will the Nursing Shortage Be Over?

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Nursing CE Central's topic in General Nursing

    Yes! You nailed right in the head there sister. There is no nursing shortage. There is a shortage of decent administration. That will pay well and actually hire nurses. This whole thing about nursing...

  4. Every Nurse Should Know Martial Arts

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    Good for you! Yes, martial arts will give you a whole bundle of skills that are essential in nursing. Reflexes, agility, quick moving body and strategies. There's absolutely no way I'm going to risk...

  5. Every Nurse Should Know Martial Arts

    Leonardo Del Toro posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm always amazed at how nurses are unprotected against an increasingly hostile and dangerous public, not only physically but also legally. Especially the ones who work in nursing facilities (like...

  6. Every Nurse Should Know Martial Arts

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    Management does not care too much about nurses safety, as evidenced by how many hours of work and tasks they make us do. My point is - you should protect yourself. And the rule #1 is to be aware of...

  7. Getting Fired

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Mcl1980's topic in General Nursing

    One of the solutions for this health care nightmare we have today, would be if nurses and doctors would be paid by having ownership share of the business. And nurses and doctors would employ...

  8. Getting Fired

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Mcl1980's topic in General Nursing

    Spot on! Administrators sit in their offices, know nothing about nursing and how working in the floor with chaotic patients is like, yet they are the ones telling us how to do our jobs. They sell this...

  9. MEN, dont come into nursing

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to DUDERNGUY's topic in Men in Nursing

    First off, work sucks. That's why they pay you, they would not if it was fun and games. But yes as a male nurse I had my share of having my head beat off and crusty old bully bats galore. Eventually I...

  10. What is harder: Hospital or facility?

    Leonardo Del Toro posted a topic in General Nursing

    They are all hard and one pay more than the other. But is all that work worth the money and the more money you make the more taxes you pay... Hospital or facility?

  11. What is harder: Hospital or facility?

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    After I graduated in 2010 I could not get a hospital job, not even if I offered my work for free. It felt I was being barred from working in these places. I've tried for years. Eventually I was given...

  12. Will I go to jail?

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to masutiraachu's topic in Nursing Career

    Off course you're not going to jail. But the fact you and many others have these fears is symptomatic of a system that is broken. Aren't nurses the most trusted professionals? Why should they be so...

  13. Hey! That's my article on nurse's notes...

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    Good question. They might not send anything at all or just send a poor replica who

  14. Hey! That's my article on nurse's notes...

    Leonardo Del Toro posted a topic in General Nursing

    I didn't attend the in service because it was my day off and I never go back to work on my days off. So, I told them I would catch up and read whatever paper you're passing around. So, they said I...

  15. Hey! That's my article on nurse's notes...

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    Everyone copies everything from everyone. I also sell jewelry at Etsy and one day I found a random website with an identical copy of one of my best selling rings. They ripped my writings, my photos...

  16. I don’t know if I want to be a nurse anymore

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Vigirl465's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not exaggerating one bit. It was so bad, I only was able to survive and stay in nursing because I made a point of doing so. In other words, the harder it got the more determined I became to find a...

  17. Nursing Staffing Post COVID Quagmire...

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. This culture of corporate nursing which is unsustainable is finally coming to full fruition and it's fruits are not sweet. The corporate mind only cares about profits and that is so incompatible...

  18. Are Nurses Superstitious?

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, go ahead and say the shift is nice and easy today and see what

  19. What is harder: Hospital or facility?

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    Love that. Yes I work at a facility that is like a family, small and everyone is nice. A true rarity in a ocean of terrible SNF's all around, it is worth every penny I don't make in a place I don't...

  20. New Nurse Struggling With Doctor Calls

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to nursem8's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm sorry to hear that the medical system in France and UK is horribly predatory toward nurses. I've always hoped that this was not the case. In the US health care is a big corporate business. The...

  21. Nursing Staffing Post COVID Quagmire...

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    And it is a sad thing isn't it? But nurses have no other resource when it comes to being forced to do more work than what they signed for. Some nurses don't have unions and the only legal resource...

  22. New Nurse Struggling With Doctor Calls

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to nursem8's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I tell the young nurses "that's why Dr Welby always answer my calls. He knows that when I call it got to be something" I don't ever bother doctors unless is critical stuff. I know one nurse that will...

  23. New Nurse Struggling With Doctor Calls

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to nursem8's topic in First Year After Licensure

  24. I don’t know if I want to be a nurse anymore

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Vigirl465's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing is brutal. I have met the nicest people, but also the most aggressive in nursing. It took me a while to find my footing. After I developed a thick skin I was able to spot the assholes and...

  25. New Nurse Struggling With Doctor Calls

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to nursem8's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Well, being comfortable takes time. As a new nurse is difficult to know what really matters and what doesn't, it will come with time. Doctors like to hear solutions and not a complex mess of problems...